Afghan farmers are learning how to be better farmers from members of the Missouri National Guard. Agribusiness Development Teams from the Guard have been working there since 2007 to teach and help implement sustainable farming practices.

Major General Steven Danner says ADT Team Six, which just deployed, will share their expertise. Danner says it’s like the adage that when you give a man a fish, he eats for a day … when you teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime. The Missouri program has been so successful that National Guard units from a dozen other states are copying it.